Steve Faulkner, Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:40:22 +0100:
>> Given that Steve’s focus on A11Y APIs, then I don't understand that he
>> mention this statement by NVDA developer James Teh.
>
> if you read back in the thread you will see it was in response to
> chaals asking me for a reference to my previous statement:
>
> "I also think that some AT will simply not implement the rich hidden
> content model as described, The NVDA developers have not implemented
> longdesc due to it having no visible UI (for example)."
>
> in other words it doesn't help to have stuff exposed by browsers if AT
> don't make use of it.
Sorry. My point was only that Firefox implements @longdesc. And thus,
that NVDA doesn't implement it because Firefox does not implement it,
makes little sense to me. Unless NVDA relies on 'visible UI' rather
than accessibility API, that is.
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leif halvard silli